Dr. Satyandra K. Gupta is a Professor in the Department of
Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research at the University
of Maryland. Currently, he is on an IPA assignment at
National Science Foundation and serving as a program director
in the Division of Information & Intelligent Systems.
He was the founding director of the Maryland Robotics Center. Prior to
joining the University of Maryland, he was a Research Scientist in the Robotics
Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. Gupta received a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Mechanical
Engineering from the University of Roorkee (currently known as the Indian
Institute of Technology, Roorkee) in 1988. He received a Gold Medal for
securing the first rank in his B.E. class (1988) and a Gold Medal for the best
Engineering Design Project (1988). He received a Master of Technology (M.
Tech.) in Production Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
in 1989. He received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of
Maryland at College Park in 1994. During his Ph.D. study, he was awarded a
Graduate School Fellowship and an Institute for Systems Research Graduate Fellowship.
For his highly inter-disciplinary Ph.D. research, he received Institute for
Systems Research’s George Harhalakis Outstanding Systems Engineering Graduate
Student Award (1994).
Dr. Gupta's research interest is in the area of automation. He is specifically interested
in automation problems arising in Computer Aided Design, Manufacturing Automation, and Robotics.
His current research is mainly focused on physics-aware planning in robotics applications.
Physically challenging environments require robots to be able to negotiate around dynamically
moving objects, cope with significant uncertainties in the outcome of action execution,
and sensor limitations and uncertainties. The main focus of his current work is on (1) computationally
efficient physics-based simulations for evaluating plans, (2) identifying representations to increase
planning efficiency, (3) architectures that combine reactive behaviors and deliberative reasoning during
planning, (4) computational synthesis of action selection policies to enable real-time planning, and (5)
automatically learning heuristics to speed up planning. His group is currently working on automated
planning for human robot collaborations in assembly tasks, autonomous unmanned sea surface vehicles,
autonomous unmanned ground vehicles, and automated optical micro-manipulation.
His prior work focused on the geometric reasoning and planning problems in manufacturing applications.
Specifically, he worked on accessibility analysis, feature recognition, manufacturability analysis, mold design,
path planning, process planning, setup planning, shape similarity assessment, shape measurement, and
tool selection problems. He has experience with the following manufacturing domains: mechanical assembly,
computer numerical control machining, micro fabrication, injection molding, multi-material molding,
sheet metal bending, solid freeform fabrication, and waterjet cutting.
Dr. Gupta has authored or co-authored more than two hundred fifty articles in
journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters. He has also delivered more
than seventy five invited tutorials, seminars, and keynote lectures at conferences,
workshops, government labs, and universities. He holds a US Patent titled Apparatus
and Method for Multi-Purpose Setup Planning for Sheet Metal Bending Operations.
He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a
senior member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), and a senior
member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has
served as the Chair of the Design for Manufacturing Technical Committee in the
Design Division of ASME. He has organized several conference sessions in the
area of computer-aided design, manufacturing automation, and robotics. He has
served as Exhibit Chair in 2000 ASME Design Engineering Technical
Conferences, Program Chair in 2002 ASME Design for Manufacturing
Conference, and Conference Chair in 2003 ASME Design for Manufacturing
Conference. He has served as a member on the Editorial Advisory Board for Assembly
Automation and Computer Aided Design and Applications journals. He
has also served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automation
Science and Engineering, ASME Journal of Computing and Information
Science in Engineering, and SME Journal of Manufacturing Processes.
He has also served on the Program Committees for Geometric Modeling and
Processing Conference, Computer Aided Design Conference, Product
Lifecycle Management Conference, CAD and Graphics Conference, IEEE
International Symposium on Assembly and Manufacturing, IEEE Conference
on Automation Science and Engineering, and ACM Solid and Physical
Modeling Conference.
Dr. Gupta has received several honors and awards for his research
contributions. Representative examples include: a Best Paper Award at the 1994 ASME
International Conference on Computers in Engineering, the Best Paper Award
at the 1999 ASME Design for Manufacturing Conference, a Young
Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research in 2000, a Robert W.
Galvin Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the Society of
Manufacturing Engineers in 2001, a CAREER Award from the National Science
Foundation in 2001, the Outstanding Systems Engineering Faculty Award from the
Institute for Systems Research in 2001, a Presidential Early Career Award for
Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2001, a Highly Commended Paper Award from
Literati Club in 2002, the Best Paper Award at the 2006 ASME Computers
and Information in Engineering Conference, Invention of the Year Award in
Physical Science category at the University of Maryland in 2007, the Compliant
Mechanism Applications Award at the 2010 ASME Mechanism and Robotics
Conference, Kos Ishii-Toshiba Award from ASME Design for Manufacturing
and the Life Cycle Committee in 2011, and the Best Paper Award at the 2012 ASME Computers
and Information in Engineering Conference.
Last updated on December 5, 2012